Sentences with phrase «most controversial»

Instead he chooses to fully embrace his most controversial proposals.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has canceled a trip to the state's most controversial and politically connected charter network, Success Academy, as she seeks to tamp down a recent drama around her appearance at a charter school rally.

August 20th 2009 - In arguably the most controversial decision by any Scottish executive, the SNP's justice secretary Kenny MacAskill sparks outrage by releasing Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al - Megrahi on compassionate grounds.

You have been responsible for successfully handling two of the most controversial issues with which this Government has dealt.

Teachers and animal welfare campaigners have expressed relief after Theresa May was forced to leave two of her most controversial pet projects out of the Queen's Speech.

Higher education funding has been one of the most controversial and divisive issues of recent years.

It is therefore essential that the government moves quickly to introduce and deliver on all the most controversial elements of its policy agenda.

One of the most controversial points is the engagement with Iran and Syria, but Mr Blair insisted it was not a question of «being unwilling to sit down with people or not, but the basis on which we discuss Iraq».

Perhaps the most controversial issue relating to GCSE is the longstanding contention that exams are too easy and are getting easier - a claim given credence by the fact that overall pass rates have increased every year since GCSEs were introduced.

The Child Support Agency has been one of the most controversial public bodies of recent times, because of the social and economic impact of its inability to handle its workload.

One of the most controversial aspects of the proposals is to incarcerate girls and boys together: only five per cent of children behind bars are girls.

There was some testy back - and - forth between Democrats and Republicans on the Senate floor during the debate, and you should expect more of the same — if not worse — when it comes time to take up legislation relating to the most controversial parts of this budget: Ethics and education.

«Indeed, with the recent closing of American International Group, Inc.'s («AIG») recapitalization plan, there is a chance that TARP may break even or possibly turn a profit on one of its most controversial transactions....»

Cuomo and legislative leaders have reached an agreement on the health and mental hygiene portion of the state's 2015 - 16 fiscal year budget, but still have yet to reach an agreement on some of the most controversial health care proposals elsewhere in the state's $ 141.6 billion spending plan.

Cloning is one of the most controversial areas of scientific research of recent times.

The Senate Sunday night spent nearly four hours debating the most controversial bill — dubbed the «big ugly» for its many unrelated items and tens of billions of dollars in spending.

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.

Unpopular governors have good chances of winning re-election — as long as they push their most controversial policies early on.

Senators said they would return only when there was a final deal on the remaining, and most controversial, budget bills.

Most controversial, as REBNY sees it, is a proposal to mandate extensive new safety training.

Ryan's visit will be the latest in a series of high - profile visits by Republicans to the city's largest and most controversial charter network.

But the most controversial issue at the conference and beyond is likely to be university tuition fees.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had ominous words for any mayoral contender looking to change the city's most controversial crime - fighting tactics.

The educational cost - sharing formula was among the most controversial changes recommended by Malloy when he released his proposed budget in early February.

Despite corruption in Albany constituting the majority of the back - and - forth between candidates, before the night's closing remarks, national politics found its way to the debate stage; specifically feelings on the presidential election's arguably most controversial candidate, Donald Trump.

Only the most controversial elements risk obstruction, either through rebellion on the Tory benches in the lower house or rejection in the upper one.

He quickly began reviewing and reversing a number of Hynes's most controversial convictions, work Cuomo insisted must continue in Thompson's absence.

The cut in child benefit is likely to prove the most controversial in the package of welfare reform unveiled yesterday.

But his most controversial idea is a rejection of the attitudes of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into the press, which have both recommended limited contact between the media and police.

But politically, the most controversial and headache - inducing aspect of the Games involves the creation of a British football team.

This afternoon the House of Lords will debate Chris Grayling's final, and arguably, most controversial legacy: the criminal courts charge — a fixed and mandatory fee which applies to every person who pleads guilty or is convicted of any offence.

«For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history.

This period in his ministerial life has been the most controversial, with 9/11, the hunt for al - Qaida, the intervention in Afghanistan and, most controversially, his support for military action against Iraq.

Senate President Malcolm Smith sat down with Liz Benjamin at the Democratic Rural Conference to talk about the party's chances of holding onto the state senate, and the future of one of the conference's most controversial members — Pedro Espada Jr..

But Pre-k has become one of the most controversial issues of the 2014 legislative session since not everyone agrees on how to pay for it.

The National Labor Relations Board vacated a decision overturning one of the Obama administration's most controversial rulings following an ethics complaint against a Trump appointee.

CBS News» Paula Reid said the order, for the time being, effectively rescinds the Trump executive action, putting on hold the most controversial provisions of the law - including suspending entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from the relevant counties; banning of refugees from certain countries; giving preference for some refugees based on religion; and banning of Syrian refugees.

It is during these campaigns that we find many of the worst and most controversial stories of war crimes and plunder engaged in by the Rwandan army and its allies.

The WEP in its earliest days promoted the passage of the 10 - point Women's Equality Act, which include as its most controversial plank a provision that would codify the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

Tony Blair's donation of # 106,000 to Labour this week — divided between candidates in the party's 106 designated target seats — doesn't make him the party largest individual donor (there were seven individuals who gave more in 2014) but he is certainly the most controversial.

The so - called omnibus bill abandons many of the most controversial provisions lawmakers were trying to include in the must - pass bill — which had painfully stalled the bill's release for days.

But New York's most controversial Charter School Executive Eva Moskowitz has reached a new low: tomorrow, she is planning to close all 22 of her schools and bus hundreds of students up to Albany to use as props.

One of the biggest and most controversial issues facing New York in the New Year is hydrofracking.

One of the most controversial is changing the city's main parking lot.

With a divided legislature in 2017, some of the most controversial proposals did not get passed despite the majority leaders supporting them including legalizing marijuana and installing tolls on state highways.

Barbara D. Underwood is seeking to remain as the state's acting attorney general until the end of 2018 and to continue as a buffer against some of Trump's most controversial policies.

The cost of the Crossrail project was largely seen as its most controversial aspect and fears that substantial government funding would place significant pressures on the transport budget led former transport secretary Alistair Darling to announce that the Crossrail project would not be funded entirely by the national taxpayer.

Debate over the so - called «big ugly» — the most controversial budget bio into which many unrelated items were stuffed — had lasted about four hours, before the bill was easily passed, 53 - 4.

This is why environmentalists will lament her appointment - and worry that when it comes to this autumn's badger cull, the most controversial issue awaiting her on her desk at Defra, she is unlikely to spend much time resisting the demands of the National Farmers» Union that the culls should continue apace.

Tomorrow, the Westminster Policy Institute publishes a report looking at some of the most controversial developments, including housing projects, energy installations and new airport capacity, asking how government can overcome the difficulty of getting projects approved.